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CONTROVERSIAL SERMON: DID CATHOLICOS ARAM I DEFROCK FATHER BARTEV FOR SPEAKING OUT?
hetq
14:15, October 26, 2012
On October 16, Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia
officially defrocked Father Bartev Gyulumian.
It seems that Cilician Catholicosate took offense at comments made
by Father Gyulumyan during a sermon he gave in Los Angeles.
Here's a snippet of what he said: The church is not a national
institution. The church is the symbolic body of Christ. The church
mustn't be viewed as a national center or a place to be used. It
must be freed of all types of partisan, Masonic and secret organizing
institutions"
The video below contains more of what Father Gyulumian said as a
basis for his defrocking. (See minute 16)
On October 16, the California-based Asbarez newspaper published the
following news item:
Antelias -The Executive Assembly of the Brotherhood of the Cilician
Catholicosate declares that taking into account the following:
a) The disobedience shown by Father Bartev
b) The fact that he tricked the Catholicosate by staying in Los
Angeles and not to his new post
in Canada
c) His inappropriate comments made in an Armenian Church in Los
Angeles
d) His refusal to write a letter of contrition
The Executive Assembly, according to the charter of the Great House
of Cilicia, unanimously proposed to His Holiness that Father Bartev
be defrocked.
hetq
14:15, October 26, 2012
On October 16, Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia
officially defrocked Father Bartev Gyulumian.
It seems that Cilician Catholicosate took offense at comments made
by Father Gyulumyan during a sermon he gave in Los Angeles.
Here's a snippet of what he said: The church is not a national
institution. The church is the symbolic body of Christ. The church
mustn't be viewed as a national center or a place to be used. It
must be freed of all types of partisan, Masonic and secret organizing
institutions"
The video below contains more of what Father Gyulumian said as a
basis for his defrocking. (See minute 16)
On October 16, the California-based Asbarez newspaper published the
following news item:
Antelias -The Executive Assembly of the Brotherhood of the Cilician
Catholicosate declares that taking into account the following:
a) The disobedience shown by Father Bartev
b) The fact that he tricked the Catholicosate by staying in Los
Angeles and not to his new post
in Canada
c) His inappropriate comments made in an Armenian Church in Los
Angeles
d) His refusal to write a letter of contrition
The Executive Assembly, according to the charter of the Great House
of Cilicia, unanimously proposed to His Holiness that Father Bartev
be defrocked.